The inexpressible joys of setting up an international community...

...distilled into a series of impossible binary decisions

By Simon Hettrick

5 March 2018 - WAIS Seminar, Southampton @sjh5000 ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195

Love to create

Love to criticise

Inclusive

Exclusive

Generic

Reductionist

Exciting

Dull

Software Sustainability Institute

Cultivating better, more sustainable, research software to enable world-class research

"People who work in academia but write code, not papers"

Founders of the UK RSE Association

1144 members

50 new members per month

The world is not binary

We think a lot of software is used in research

We think that a lot of researchers develop their own code

We think that a lot of those developers are largely untrained

We think that people who want to develop code end up sacrificing their career in academia

We think that there's a lot of bespoke software

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